hypnotic
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Hoover co-wrote the screenplay alongside Lauren Levine, which is why the film bears the same strangely hypnotic, if confusing, pull as her novels.
From Salon • Mar. 19, 2026
Back and forth, neither of us missing, the ball blurring between us in that hypnotic rhythm that makes everything else disappear.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026
Stasevska was born in 1984, the same year that Glass’ hypnotic, ritualistic opera, about an Egyptian pharaoh who dared to push monotheism onto his polytheistic culture, debuted in Stuttgart, Germany.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2026
The rendition is hypnotic but also distancing, making these utopian dreamworlds seem even more artificial than they already were, now ungrounded in space and time, crowds moving en masse through cosmic anthills.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026
The man’s name was Patrick, and he spoke in a soft, hypnotic voice that made everything he said sound wise and comforting.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
Vocabulary lists containing hypnotic
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